Much to our surprise Lola (5 yrs old) had an attack of pancreatitis right before Christmas. We were lucky and caught it quick and after just three days her blood count numbers were normal and she was feeling OK. We always thought she had an iron stomach. She did get table scraps on occasion but only what we thought would be good for her like unseasoned, chicken, salmon, and scrambled eggs. Occasionally she would get a whisper of a piece of crisp bacon, we hardly ever gave her cheese or anything processed, like lunch meat or ham and never stuff like pizza or mac and cheese or anything that was marinated or came out of a box like when my husband would eat a frozen hungry man dinner. We only gave her what we thought were high quality dog treats (only made in USA) and she ate regular dry dog food with about a 15% fat. But still she got it
Now her diet is changed to Royal Canine low fat dry kibble, which she eats with no problem but she is used to getting treats after she goes potty and when she get's her hair done. so far I give her steamed chicken and sweet potato, flavored with low sodium organic chicken broth. I bought some
very tiny low fat milk type bones (I always throw her one when I leave the house. I also found a low fat chicken jerky. She does not like carrots, apples, bananas, or cheerios, but I have started dipping cheerios in the chicken broth and she will eat that. I also baked up some little cookie size patties using the low fat canned food I got at the vet, she like that but it crumbles easily. I was thinking of adding some oatmeal or whole wheat flower and maybe some shredded chicken to the canned food and try baking that. But I am really looking for some dry type treats that taste like meat. Have any of you found any thing like that is low fat.
I was also thinking about getting food dehydrator (I think that is what it is called to make my own chicken and sweet potato jerky, any advice on that would be appreciated.
Thanks for any information you have on treating your dog after an attack of Pancreatitis.